David Alderson is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of Manchester. He has written widely about the relations between gender, sexuality and neoliberalism. He is co-editor of For Humanism: Explorations in Theory and Politics (Pluto, 2017) and author of Sex, Needs, and Queer Culture: From Liberation to the Postgay (Zed Books, 2016).Robert Spencer is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures at the University of Manchester. He writes and teaches in the areas of modernism, cultural theory and postcolonial writing. He is co-editor of For Humanism (Pluto, 2017).

'A major intervention into contemporary discussions about the resources of political hope, this volume insists upon the continuing indispensability and, indeed, radicalness of humanism as both a critical philosophy and a moral-political template'

• Series PrefaceIntroduction: Humanism’s Other Story - Timothy Brennan1. The Rise, Decline and Possible Revival of Socialist Humanism - Barbara Epstein2. Marxist Humanism after Structuralism and Post-structuralism: The Case for Renewal - Kevin Anderson3. Postcolonialism is a Humanism - Robert Spencer4. Queer Theory, Solidarity and Bodies Political - David AldersonConclusion - David Alderson and Robert SpencerIndex